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Screwball
01
a whimsically eccentric person
02
a pitch with reverse spin that curves toward the side of the plate from which it was thrown
Grammatical Information
Animacy status
Inanimate
Composition
Compound
Countable
singular
not gender specific
Plural form
screwballs
screwball
01
having a wildly eccentric or unpredictable nature
Grammatical Information
Composition
Compound
qualitative
Superlative
most screwball
Comparative
more screwball
gradable
domain
behavior, personality, cognition
Examples
They came up with a screwball scheme that no one expected.
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